Nial, aka Nested Interactive Array Language, is a programming language created in 1981 by Mike Jenkins.
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Nial (from "Nested Interactive Array Language") is a high-level array programming language developed from about 1981 by Mike Jenkins of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Jenkins co-created the Jenkins–Traub algorithm. Nial combines a functional programming notation for arrays based on an array theory developed by Trenchard More with structured programming concepts for numeric, character and symbolic data. Read more on Wikipedia...
write 'Hello World';
bye
quicksort is fork [ >= [1 first,tally],
pass,
link [
quicksort sublist [ < [pass, first], pass ],
sublist [ match [pass,first],pass ],
quicksort sublist [ > [pass,first], pass ]
]
]| Feature | Supported | Example | Token |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strings | ✓ | 'Hello world' | ' |
| Print() Debugging | ✓ | write |